Attachment for cigar-machines.



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(Application filed Sept. 10, 1900.)

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THOMAS E. CARPENTER, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

ATTACHMENT FOR CIGAR-MACHINES.

SPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 665,176, dated January 1, 1901.

Application filed September 10, 1900- Serial No. 29,582. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS E. CARPENTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Attachments for Cigar-Machines, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad therein to the accompanying drawings.

Like letters indicate like parts.

Figure l is a front elevation of a cigar-machine having my improvements thereon. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the said machine, showing the cutter in its open position. The section-line in this figure is w x of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is the same, showing said cutter in its closed position. Fig. 4 is a'planview of the rockshaft and springs thereon, together with said cutter and the adjustable holder for supporting the cigar during the cutting operation and for measuring the length at which it is to be out.

My invention relates to means for cutting the end of a cigar and is shown as applied to the improved cigar-machine described in Letters Patent of the United States No.-639,663, granted to me December 19, 1899.

Said invention consists of the novel construction and combination of the several elements, as hereinafter particularly described, and as set forth in the claims.

The machine shown in my said Letters Patent and to which the device is applied which constitutes my present invention is briefly described as follows:'

In Figs. land 2 I show a cigar-machine to which my improved cutting device is attached. This machine has a standard Aand a main driving-shaft N and is driven by a belt V, which passes over a pulley U. A pin 10 projects from the face of the pulley U near the edge thereof. Said pulley has a clutch member W attached thereto; but said pulley and clutch member are loose on the shaft N. The shaft N is mounted at one end in the standard A and at its other end in a support X. A fixed clutch member S is fastened on said shaft, and a spiral spring T, surrounding the shaft, has its ends bearing against the clutch members S and W.

On the front of the cigar-machine a rock- I shaft e is mounted loosely in the standard A.

A spiral spring fis wound on the rock-shaft e and has one end inserted in a hole in said shaft, Fig. 4, and the other end secured to the standard A. A supporting block or holder 9 is loosely mounted on the rock-shaft c and isadjusted and held in position thereon by the set-screw h. Said block or holder g eX- tends upwardly, as shown in Fig. 1, and has at its upper end a conical seat t', as appears in Figs. 1 and 4.. On the rock-shaft c is fastened a fixed bladej of a pair of shears, and loosely mounted beside it on said shaft is a movable blade is of said pair of shears. The forms of these blades are shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The blade is has an integral handle I extending therefrom and a stop m. A stoppin 11. from the blade j limits the movement of the blade 70, as shown. A spiral spring 0 on the shaft e serves to hold the bladesj normally apart in the position shown in Fig. 2. The pin 10 from the pulley U is in operative contact with the handle 6 of the blade is whenever the rock-shaft e is brought into such position by the pressure of the operators finger upon the block 9 that the handle Z of the blade It is in thepath of said pin 10 as the pulley rotates. A nut g on the end of the rockshaft e holds the blade k against the blade j.

The tuck end of the cigar is finished by being cut off squarely at the right length. To accomplish this, the cigar 5 after it has been wrapped is laid, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the pointed end in the seat 6 of the holder 9 and the opposite end between the shearblades j k. The holder 9 is placed on the rock-shaft e at the required distance from the shears, according to the desired length of the cigar, the clutch member W of the pulley U being at that time disengaged from the fixed clutch member S of the shaft N. The operator then pushes the holder 9 forward toward the machine, thereby rocking the shaft 6, and thus brings the shears into the position shown in Fig. 2, so that the end of the handle Z is in the path of the pin 19 of the revolving pulley U. As soon as said pin comes in contact with the handle Z, as seen in Fig. 2, the further revolution of said pulley carries said pin to the position shown in Fig. 3, thus depressing the handle I and closing the shear-blades, which results in cutting off the tuck end of the cigar squarely across.

When the pulley U rotates beyond the posit-ion shown in Fig. 3, the pin 1) passes out of contact with the handle Z, and the spring 0 automatically returns the shear-blades to their normal open position. As soon as the cigar end has been thus cut the operator releases his pressure upon the holder g, and the spring frocks the shaft 6 back again to its original position, and so moves the shearhaudle Z forward out of the path of the pin 19 of the pulley U.

I claim as a novel and useful invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In acigar-machine havingadriving-pulley, the combination therewith of a pin extending from said pulley, a rock-shaft properly mounted, a block mounted upon one end of said rock-shaft, two shear-blades adapted tocooperate, one fixed on said shaft and one loosely mounted thereon and provided with a handle, which when the shaft is rocked is movable thereby into the path of the pin of said pulley as the latter revolves, a spring adapted to hold said rock-shaft normally in a position such that said handle is out of the path of the pin of the revolving pulley, and a spring connected with said shears and arranged normally to separate the blades of said shears, substantially as shown.

2. In a cigaranachine having a driving-pulley, the combination therewith of a pin extending from said pulley, a rock-shaft properly mounted, a holding-block adjustably mounted on the rock-shaft and having a concave seat adapted to receive the pointed end of a cigar, two shear-blades adapted to cooperate, one fixed on said shaft and one loosely mounted thereon and provided with a handle, which when the shaft is rocked is movable thereby into the path of the pin of said pulley as the latter revolves, a spring adapted to hold said rock-shaft normally in such a position that said handle is out of the path of the pin of the revolvingpulley and a spring connected with said shears and arranged normally to separate the blades of said shears, substantially as described.

3. In a cigar-machine having a driving-pub ley, the combination therewith of a rockshaft properly mounted and movable in one direction by a suitable handle and in the other direction by a spring, a blade fixed on said shaft, a cutter loosely mounted on said rock-shaft and means between said cutter and pulley adapted to impart motion to the former from the latter for the purpose of bringing said blade and cutter intooperative engagement, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS E. CARPENTER.

Witnesses:

EDWARD F. LOVEJOY, WARREN R. PIERCE. 

